Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
John
Gospels / JohnWoe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
1 Kings
HistoryO LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalms
PoetryAnd the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation
ApocalypticDeliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Psalms
PoetryWhen the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSimon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Matthew
GospelsThen said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThese are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psalms
PoetryI charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonFor Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.